VA Commits $20 MM for West LA Facility
"The federal Department of Veterans Affairs has approved $20 million in funding to convert a little-used building at the West Los Angeles VA campus into therapeutic housing for chronically homeless veterans – a plan that has been years in the making.
"The action was jointly announced by U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein, U.S. Representative Henry A. Waxman and L.A. County Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky. Yaroslavsky credited Santa Monica Mayor Bobby Shriver with proposing in 2004 that three unused or underused buildings on the campus be converted to help ease the county's homeless veteran problem..." Read more
"We finally got to first base but I want to get to second, third and home base ASAP."
Bobby has been leading efforts to convert West LA VA for homeless vets. (Liz Baylen, LA Times)
